How RUSSIAN VILLAGES Look: Ride around my countryside with me 🌻

I get nasty at your service. I grew up in the village and I'm proud of it. Every street in this place is dear to me and I'm very happy to walk around and show you my village so you can see how regular Russian villages look like. Khorostenko is an average village in the heart of Russia. It has hot summers and freezing winters. You can vividly feel each season. Since it is the district center, sort of the main village among our villages, it remains a pleasant enough place to live in. People from the nearby smaller settlements come here. About 5 000 people live here. This is the map on which we are going to walk today and look at what I think are the key points in my village. And let's start with what everyone sees the very first entering this place. A large sign with the name of the village Khorostenko. And also here is a statue that represents our hospitality. It holds the bread like in Russia. Something like a welcoming gesture to guests. So you're welcome. Let's start our tour with my favorite village school. There is only one school in Khorostenko except for the kindergarten which I'll show you later. This is where I spent most of my life. And I already made a video about my school and it's gotten over a million views. If I only knew that this amount of people will watch it, I will try harder or I would be paralyzed with a fear and I would never film this video. Then I was still studying here. They built a cool new stadium where local football team and teams from our villages play football. And we even have our football club which is called Zvezda. And my dad told me that sometimes to our village David Betham comes and he plays for our club. So we have an orthodox church near my school and I didn't go here often but I did go here with my grandmother and there are some celebrations. Or for example before United States exam me and my mom was going to this church to pray for my education so I can pass my exams. I don't know if it was God's help or my anxiety disorder but I passed my exams perfectly. Here we also have a technical school or college. School students always had prejudices about students of college because it was considered something like a place where students go who doesn't have enough power to pass exams and go to university. Here you can learn to be a cook, a tractor driver, accountant. But to be honest why everyone should go and study into the city? Life in here is so peaceful and if a person just wants to stay in here with their friends and family and live a simple village life I think that's just perfect. Thanks to people like this like our village is not only not dying but continues to become like more comfortable and comfortable for living. There are huge number of villages in Russia which unfortunately are slowly dying because they're either too low wages or no jobs at all. Young people are living for the cities for a better life and beautiful rural areas simply remain abandoned. Over the last 20 years more than 30 000 villages have disappeared in Russia. But larger settlements like Khorostyanko do not die but even improve each year. And I feel like in some time people will come back to the villages from the city because in the city all this stress and cost of living is just unpleasant. And now we are entering kindergarten. This is like a kindergarten elementary school and I was in here and I consider it the best place in the village. We have two kindergartens in our village and I was in the both of them. They are also free just like the school. The main entrance. It's so cute over here. Then I was in this kindergarten. These little rooms it was our toilet. This is how we ride in Russia. These things are actually really tasty but we were eating this in the September because like it's getting ready in September. You can literally live here. As a kid I was so afraid of them. Now they should be afraid of me. Now we are on our way to the hospital and I would love to show you how it looks inside but I'm like too anxious. A lot actually. The hospital is also free and you can go to any doctor if you're worried about something but of course like you will have to wait in lines or for example when I was going to the dentist when I was a child I was going here and it was free but for example good anesthesia it costs some money so something like that. Of course I was going here then I was living here and the most citizens of the village they go to this clinic and the citizens of the nearby villages here they also do surgery here you can have babies. I was born in this clinic but then something really serious should be done of course people are going to the city. How do you call cats in your in your country? Because in Russia to call them you should call cats. They're gonna react on this. I just heard in our countries they say something else it's like our cats are not gonna react on that. Now we are going to drive along the streets so I can show you the ordinary houses of the locals. Everyone has a garden, almost everyone grows vegetables, herbs and berries. We have both more modern houses and a lot of grandparents and just people still live in the old wooden houses Izbushka. My grandparents are still living in this one and I made a video about it already on my channel. I make videos about everything I love it's like Izbushka, my grandma, food, racism and then of course we have houses which we consider fancy this is like houses of the local businessman who opens the stores and the villages or farmers I don't know what else people do to earn their money. Going into the houses and asking people who they work for and how much they earn it's not gonna end up good in Russia. We also have like a high rising buildings in our village this is also the attribute of the fact that we are not just a village we are a silo. And I was born in this kind of building and I lived here until seven years old and even in the apartments people have their own gardens like each apartment of this building has their own gardens as well. I also want to show you our village shops there are quite a lot of them now and it was not like that before. Previously we went to the city to buy clothes or school supplies or waited for the market to arrive on Friday. Now we have free supermarkets and a lot of private stores that the locals set up with classic sellers. The product range is lower than in supermarkets but many people go there because they bring some particularly tasty bread or just because they're closer to home. Tell me in the comments what kind of stores in the villages in your country. I have not found such videos on youtube. Finally we got to the center of the village there is a small park a fountain and as in any self-respecting settlement of the post-soviet space a monument to Lenin which was restored several times because some teenagers are constantly clumbing on it. This is local administration this is a children's art center and I went here to a lot of classes. I went here to dance class, drawing class, clay modeling, video club, juggling. I was like really active kid and everything was free so I just tried everything and this is a district court. As a child I thought it was like the most beautiful building in the world. Here in the center is district house of culture and here I was also going to the russian folk dance class. It was fun but traumatizing because the teacher she did not spare us. Once at the performance my mom she didn't have enough time to put a scarf on my head so while performance I was standing in the first line smiling because it was mandatory to smile wide and crying my eyes out and I hold the scarf in my hand. I thought I will be killed but they took pity on me. Next to the center is the main park of the village which we call the old park but it is actually called cosmonauts park. It is where we have all the summer festivals like village day, youth day, children protection day and so on. There used to be there used to be there used to be a wooden slide where once rolled down you could get five splinters in your ass. That was a beautiful structure. I found this slide in another part of the village especially for you my favorite subscribers because it is important. I'm glad that it was not destroyed because there is a registry of Hvorostyank teenagers names phone numbers and other crucial information. I guess it was like the way to bully people just by writing down their numbers so like strangers will call to these numbers and I don't know trying to be acquaintances and my number was also there but the number was wrong. Jesus Christ how am I gonna go down? Okay guys we're inside. I'll try to find I'm pretty sure my number is not here anymore Oh my god it is still here. This is my name Krasima I love you. Sex on the phone. Mostly here is like as you can see I love you and all this stuff the best way to tell someone that you love him. Here used to be a stair and they remove it I guess just because to make kids not go inside but as you can see it's not really a problem to go inside Now I want to show you a few more places where locals like to spend time since our main pastime as teenagers was just walking around the village we spent time whenever we could stand for example this is the platinka we used to go swimming here when we were kids and well wish to do now It is a dam built most likely to prevent the village from being flooded by the Chigra river and while in summer we swim in this river there are even a couple of beaches if it can be called that. In winter when it freezes we go sledding and skying on it. Now we are going to one of my favorite places. It's a little bit far away in the field. By the way now we are passing a cemetery it's like tradition for us to go there before Easter to clean up the graves of our relatives and leave a candy and cookies and then children collect them or it's just being eaten by birds not every youtuber will show you russian cemetery right so appreciate me love me give me likes come we have quite a lot of fields the near major city samara is about 140 kilometers away and everything in between is just fields so we used to ride bicycles a lot and we used to go there in the field and steal like some flowers it was still a little bit of cooler yes you were here is a bungee jump me and my friends was coming here a lot to jump obviously i will do this right now as well but i'm pretty sure i will fall because i have a weak arm each time that i try just to ride on it i fall 100 information i will do this for youtube but it's too cold well that's my village i moved from here to the city then i graduated but i've been coming back here every weekend just like a lot of people do these days they just leave and work in the city and on weekends they come to their home or like my parents they want to spend their retirement in here and i understand them pretty well because only here i feel calm all the time no matter what happens in the country and the world even if an alien invasion starts i really don't know what next years is preparing for us i will not be surprised in case of alien invasion i will just come back here and i will hide in the forests and fields pick mushrooms and berries and raise chickens with my relatives and friends that's my plan i will be really interested to read your comments what you think about my village or maybe how villages in your countries looks like thank you for watching this video now watch our ones like subscribe